Whistle Stop

Whistle Stop

1963 · 70 min · ★ 5.6 · Comedy, Romance

Moscow academician Pavel Pavlovich comes to a picturesque village on the seashore to calmly spend his vacation here. Whiling away the time for sketches, he manages to get acquainted with the local guys, the restless Grishka and the daughter of the foreman Nyuska. Together they build a stove, repair a sewing machine, and reconstruct a telephone switchboard. When Pavel Pavlovich suddenly falls ill, all the villagers take care of him. When the time comes to leave, Pavel Pavlovich understands that in this village far from the capital, he leaves a piece of his heart.

Directed by Boris Barnet · Written by Boris Barnet

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Vasili Merkuryev Pavel Pavlovich
Yekaterina Mazurova grandmother Tatyana
Nadezhda Rumyantseva Sima, collective farm accountant
Boris Novikov collective farm foreman
Ada Berezovskaya Klavka the milkmaid
Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina Zoika the saleswoman
Aleksandr Potapov Ivan the tractor driver
Valeri Ryzhakov Vasya the driver
Albina Orlovskaya adjutant woman
Nikolai Bogatyryov Grishka
Lyudmila Chistyakova Nyuska
Andrei Titov partisan

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